Councillor’s criticism is misplaced

YOU published a letter from David Skinner, a Conservative councillor in Westwood Ward on Coventry City Council in which he made various criticisms of the Government and the Prime Minister in particular.

YOU published a letter from David Skinner, a Conservative councillor in Westwood Ward on Coventry City Council in which he made various criticisms of the Government and the Prime Minister in particular.

It must be rank hypocrisy on the part of Coun Skinner to criticise a Labour Government which has been prepared to invest in public spending, particularly in the areas of education, law and order, and health, and which has contributed to ensuring that a recession brought about by the abusive practices and excesses of the banking and finance sector did not turn into a full scale recession.

Coun Skinner conveniently ignores the level of borrowing that Coventry City Council has incurred over the last five years of Conservative rule.

Perhaps he can explain why it is economically prudent for the level of borrowing in Coventry to have increased by tens of millions of pounds, and yet it is inappropriate for the Government to have pursued such a course of action.

Presumably, there is one law for the Tories on Coventry City Council, and another for a Government committed to Social Justice and economic well being.

Coun Skinner suggests that the Prime Minister “....obviously exhausted and detached from reality with the Government disintegrating around him”...

Such personal criticisms are as unattractive as they are inaccurate and it ill behoves Coun Skinner to make such comments.